Fifis.'] XLiii. ampeudej: (baker). 407 



Iiower Guinea. Iluilla, Angola, Dr. Welicitsdi. I 



Resembles the preceding in general habit ; best distingui.slicd Lv ii- ,s, ,.,,,> ,,,i.i a ... 

 ous bracts. 



53. V. pendula, Welic. mss. Stem herbaceous, niodoraldy ^ 

 brownish, much striated, not pubescent, densely clothed with ionj;, sj)n 

 or deflexed, weak, gland-tipped bristles, the sam'e colour as the stem, ^t 

 large, ovate-acuminate, membranous. Petioles 2-3 in. long, weak, h( 1 

 ous, bristly like the branches. Leaves with 5 sessile, obovate-lanccolai' 

 lets, the central one 3-5 in. long, \\-2 iu. broad, the point acute, tin 

 cuneate, the edge deeply inciso-dentate, texture tliui but lleshv, upper ^:. 

 bright green, glabrous, lower permanently clothed all over witjj tine,.-. .:, 

 nearly white, cottony tomentum. Tendrils copious, herbaceous, bristly like 

 the branches. Flowers in copiously compound cymes, 4-G in. broad, on 

 bristly herbaceous peduncles, 3-4 in. long. Clusters with searious, brown, 

 lanceolate bracts, which exceed them. Pedicels generally about 1 line long, 

 slender, setose. Calyx not more than 1 line broad, pubescent and very 

 setose. Petals and stamens 4. Style subulate. Berries about 4 lines long, 

 roundish-pyriform, pendulous, red, copiously clothed with gland-tipj)*-.! 

 bristles like the rest of the plant. 



Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Br. Wehcitsch ! 

 A very distinct species. 



54. V. Thonningii, Baker. Stems firm-herbaceous, slender, tirito, 

 finely grey-downy and glandular when young. Petioles 1-3 in. long, firm- 

 herbaceous and clothed like the branches. Leaflets 5, distinctly stalked, the 

 terminal one obovate-oblong, 2-4 in. long by about half as broad, the point 

 bluntish, the base cuneate, the edge irregularly crenate-repand, texture fleshy 

 but not very thick, upper surface glabrous, lower slightly grey-downy. Flowers 

 in copiously branched lax cymes, 4-6 in. broad, on firm herbaceous peduncles, 

 2-3 in. long. Clusters without bracts. Pedicels 1 line long, grey-downy. 

 Calyx \ line broad, grey-dowmy, subentire. Corolla 1 line deep, constricted, 

 slightly downy. Petals and stamens 4. Style subulate, lierries roundisli- 

 oblong, pendulous, 4-5 lines long, densely clothed with grey down. — Cissus 

 cymosa, Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 82; Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit. 208. 



Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Thonning ; Nupe, Barter! Accra, T. Vogel ! 

 IiOiTirer Guinea. Loanda and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 

 Some of Dr. Wchvitscli's specimens have the leaves opposite about the iniildlo of the stem. 

 We are obliged to drop the name ci/mosa, because there is alR'ady a V. cgmosa of HIuujc. 



55. V. cyphopetala, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. ii. 282 (Cissus). Stem 

 herbaceous, angular, finely grey-downy, finely striated. Petioles about 2 in. 

 long, w^eak, herbaceous, finely tomentose. Tendrils copious, lurbacoous. 

 Leaves with 3-5 leaflets, the terminal one on a stalk \ in. long, obovate- 

 oblong, 2-3 in. long, \-l^ in. broad, indistinctly pointed, the fd<ie broadly 

 crenate, the base rounded, the lateral ones similar, usually considerably ini- 

 bricated, texture thin but rather succulent, ui)per side slightly grey-downy, 

 the lower more so. Flowers iu copiously eomjiound cymes 3 5 in. broad. 

 Peduncles 2-3 in. long, weak, glabrous. Pedicels weak, tomentose, 2-3 lines 

 long. Calyx under ^ line broad, pubescent, not lobcd. Corolla 2 lines long, 



